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8th Notch wrote:Would make sense to me to cut up all of the DC units first...That does make perfect sense. To my knowledge, a large portion of the DC fleet still survives. When I heard today about 920, it seemed extremely odd to me and made me question its validity.
ACeInTheHole wrote:920 looks like its fought war, as per the usual.Other battle worn ones were 901, 905, and 924. I have no idea why some units were considerably more beat up then others. my best guess is weather exposure and running millions of miles.
8th Notch wrote:Funny because the 901 has a note next to it that reads " In Wilmington DE for possible preservation" on Wiki. I'm sure there isn't much left of it to preserve at this point.Wikipedia is just going by what people read off these forums and facebook. 901 needs to hang out to donate more parts so that all the leased units can go back as 100% when they turn them in.
8th Notch wrote:Funny because the 901 has a note next to it that reads " In Wilmington DE for possible preservation" on Wiki. I'm sure there isn't much left of it to preserve at this point.Since the 915 is at RRMPA, who will take the 901? IRM? (Just a thought.)
8th Notch wrote:I would like to see one preserved in original paint!The RRMPA was interested in returing 915 to phase III in the future, but I wouldn't expect it to be too soon. They have a long list of items that needs to be restored. After they restore 4-4-2 460 (not quite sure if they are finished yet), they want restore GG1 4800 and E60 603. After that, they were thinking about restoring the Metroliner, but they weren't sure. They still have a lot of equipment in the yard that needs to be restored, and the 915 is probably the piece outside in the yard that is the best condition.
8th Notch wrote:Funny because the 901 has a note next to it that reads " In Wilmington DE for possible preservation" on Wiki. I'm sure there isn't much left of it to preserve at this point.Funny how you mention that! When Amtrak was selling AEM-7 parts in eBay, an emergency red strobe light from 951 caught my eye, so I decided to place a bid and I won. When it arrived, I examined it closely. The disposition tag on it said that it was from 951's F end. I then looked at pictures of the unit to see the strobe light when it was still on the engine and noticed that 951 carried a different style of the strobe light than I recieved. I then looked at pictures of every engine in the fleet, and the only one that matched was 901's F end light. Other AEM-7ACs carry the same style as the type I have, but the paint on it is different. On most ACs, the entire case for the light is painted blue. On mine, half is painted the standard silver with the bottom half being blue. My conclusion is that parts may have gotten a little mixed up when they were stripping them, and 901's strobe got switched with 951's. I personally am not upset, for I like 901 better than 951.
ApproachMedium wrote:920 was one of the really good runners thats why it looks like hell. Same with the 924. Its not getting scrapped if it still has pantographs on it. Those have to go back to transtech before they can scrap it. All of the junked units had their pans removed before being sent for the scrap.So in the photo in the link provided, we see 949, 932, 915, and 901 in March of 2015 stored out of service in Wilmington. 949 doesn't have its pans, so would that mean it was scrapped?
Also if they were going to scrap an AC motor, why not the 901? Amtrak owns that unit and its a mess.
aem7ac921 wrote:Parts often got switched from engine to engine while they were in service. There was a lot or rob peter to pay paul. Ive personally been the one to do it. Strobes were never matched AC motors to DC motors. Its whatever worked went.8th Notch wrote:Funny because the 901 has a note next to it that reads " In Wilmington DE for possible preservation" on Wiki. I'm sure there isn't much left of it to preserve at this point.Funny how you mention that! When Amtrak was selling AEM-7 parts in eBay, an emergency red strobe light from 951 caught my eye, so I decided to place a bid and I won. When it arrived, I examined it closely. The disposition tag on it said that it was from 951's F end. I then looked at pictures of the unit to see the strobe light when it was still on the engine and noticed that 951 carried a different style of the strobe light than I recieved. I then looked at pictures of every engine in the fleet, and the only one that matched was 901's F end light. Other AEM-7ACs carry the same style as the type I have, but the paint on it is different. On most ACs, the entire case for the light is painted blue. On mine, half is painted the standard silver with the bottom half being blue. My conclusion is that parts may have gotten a little mixed up when they were stripping them, and 901's strobe got switched with 951's. I personally am not upset, for I like 901 better than 951.
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aem7ac921 wrote:8th Notch wrote:I would like to see one preserved in original paint!The RRMPA was interested in returing 915 to phase III in the future, but I wouldn't expect it to be too soon. They have a long list of items that needs to be restored. After they restore 4-4-2 460 (not quite sure if they are finished yet), they want restore GG1 4800 and E60 603. After that, they were thinking about restoring the Metroliner, but they weren't sure. They still have a lot of equipment in the yard that needs to be restored, and the 915 is probably the piece outside in the yard that is the best condition.
